Spring Trip to Osaka and Kobe

I recently went to Osaka to get some official papers from the consulate there.  I made a little trip out of it.  Here are my redacted logs (names and personal information removed):

何このLinuxっていうOS？

私を知っている人はほとんど皆は私がLinuxというパソコンのOSを使っているのを知っていると思うんですが、それより詳しくは知らないかもしれないので、ちょっと説明させていただきたい。

Ways to learn and memorize Kanji

As a long-time student of Japanese one ever present aspect of my study is that of kanji.  For my generation the word kanji is fairly well known, for older generations it means Chinese character or glyph.  Though called Chinese characters the word kanji is Japanese.  The reason for this is that the Japanese language adopted the Chinese writing system some centuries ago.  

Trip to Thailand

I just returned from a 5 night trip to Thailand.  It was a whirlwind, and I got a little dizzy at the end, but it was pretty thrilling anyway.

It’s not always easier to speak in my native language

私は母国語が英語です。ということは英語で話すことは楽です。。。か？

実は、かならずそういうわけではない。

もちろん、日本語より英語のほうがうまく使える。日本語はまだ勉強中なんだけど、会話では二人が必要。私は一人だけ。もう一人の大事な人がいる。それはもちろん相手のことだ。

Wedding Stuff

There’s so much wedding stuff to do!  Since Miu and I decided on having a wedding I’ve learned about a lot of it.  Just like in America, the wedding industry in Japan is huge!

Costs for ceremonies range from 5000 to 50000 dollars easily, and as I’m sure anyone who has looked into whats possible with weddings knows, the sky is the limit.

So far as I can tell we’re planning a ceremony something along the following lines:

Teaching with real examples

Teaching is easy.  You just tell people stuff.  Teaching all of your students effectively on the other hand can be a monumentally difficult task.  As a relatively uneducated, unseasoned teacher I find teaching people that learn fast to be the most satisfying, but that’s because it’s easy.  Teaching the slower learners and those that aren’t as adept at taking on new ideas is very challenging and sometimes frustrating.

なぜLinuxを使う？

久しぶりに日本語のポストだ。日本ではOSとかオペレーティングシステムってあまりよく話されていないと思うので、少しだけでも説明したりさせていただきたい。

Teach Yourself Japanese

I’m thinking about writing a book to sell.

The topic would be about teaching yourself Japanese, with both language content and methodology inside.

It would guide you through the difficulties in literacy, grammatical structure, and linguistic-culture.

I’m racist

Hopefully you’ll humor me long enough for me to explain the title, which I think is an important statement.